Offence:Pleaded guilty to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent.

Sentence: Jailed for a maximum four-and-a-half years,with a non-parole period of two-and-a-half years. He will be eligible for parole in May 2020.

Other: Mulholland watched and followed a young 19 year old woman into a laneway in Hamilton in what was described as a random and “predatory” attack. Mulholland was “seriously and significantly” bashed by a group of inmates who made clear to him why they were assaulting him. He has since been moved into protective custody.

‘Facebook rapist’ jailed for NSW attacks

A NSW man has been jailed for at least 30 years after befriending teenage girls and young women on Facebook and other social media sites and then sexually assaulting them.

Andrew James Benn, 29, raped or indecently assaulted 14 teenagers and young women he met on social media, including Facebook, Tinder and Snapchat, between September 2012 and January 2017.

Newcastle District Court judge Roy Ellis on Thursday jailed Benn – who’d pleaded guilty to 33 charges including 21 counts of sexual intercourse without consent – for a total of 40 years with a non-parole period of 30 years.

Judge Ellis said the way a “depraved” Benn had treated his victims was “nothing short of despicable”. The judge described his enormous criminality as “evil”.

Benn would trawl through personal Facebook pages of random young women in the NSW Hunter region searching for victims and sending them friend requests.

After befriending them, Benn would gain their confidence, and then arrange to meet in person before attacking them.

In one case, Benn, from Rothbury in the Hunter Valley, sent a Facebook friend request to a 17-year-old girl in November 2013 and spent weeks chatting to her online until he convinced the teenager to meet him.

The year 11 student told Benn she’d never been on a date before. She thought he was going to drive her into Newcastle but, instead, he took her to a boat ramp at Morpeth in Maitland and raped her in the back seat.

Benn then drove the terrified girl to the Morpeth cemetery where he raped her again.

In an emotional victim impact statement read to the court, the woman revealed she’d been ashamed of what Benn had done to her.

At the time she felt she couldn’t tell anyone about being raped – including her mother.

“I was still in shock. I was worried about how my mother would react,” the woman told the court on Thursday.

She suffered panic attacks, nightmares and flashbacks after the attack and subsequently failed year 11. She didn’t return to school.

Another victim told the court she hated herself every day because she froze when Benn attacked her and didn’t fight back.

Benn was arrested in January 2017 after two teenage girls and three women aged between 16 and 20 contacted police to report he’d sexually assaulted them.

A further nine victims came forward following publicity about his arrest.

Offence:Found guilty in June, 2015 of seven offences against one student, 14, including multiple charges of sexual intercourse, and four offences against a second student, 14, including sexual intercourse

Sentence:Sentenced to seven years’ jail, with a minimum term of four years and six months and an earliest release date in June, 2022.

Other: Clegg worked at a St John of God boarding school for boys with educational and behavioural problems during two periods in the 1980s. The school cannot be named for legal reasons. He was described as a Welfare Officer, Family Counsellor and member of the Community and Family Care Unit.

OUR RAPISTS NEED TO LEAVE

In 2002, I was subjected to the most horrifying experience a woman can endure, gang-raped over and over again by four Pakistani brothers, scared they would stab me to death if I did not submit.

They were jailed for many years and today, one of my rapists walks free.

He arrived in Australia from Pakistan in 2000 and was raping teenage girls within two years but because he was given citizenship before he was caught, our laws mean he gets to stay here.

I do not want this man and his brothers to live in our beautiful country. They do not deserve it. The law needs to change.

How can these men commit such terrible acts and be allowed to stay if they had only lived in Australia for two years? Their only contributions here are as rapists and living off the taxpayer in jail for their awful crimes against me and others who suffer to this day.

Please sign this petition.

Please send a strong message to our government and immigration Minister Peter Dutton that people who commit acts of violence and terrorise our community so soon after gaining citizenship forfeit the right to remain Australian citizens. Surely, this is what every Australian wants?

Thank you.

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My name is Y. I cannot reveal my real name.

My daughter still lives with the emotional devastation of what four Pakistani brothers did to her so many years ago.

She has tried to hurt herself on numerous occasions and even tried to kill herself. These men destroyed her life and because of it, have destroyed mine. They stole my girl from me.

I beg you to sign this petition for our federal government to change the law which protects foreigners who come here and commit awful crimes as new “Australians” but does not protect me, my daughter Tegan or those real Australians who respect our values.

It might be too late to have the animals who attacked my daughter sent away, but maybe we can stand up for future victims.

Offence:Pleaded guilty to 23 offences including possessing child abuse material and causing a child under 16 to engage in sexual intercourse outside Australia in his presence.

Sentence:Sentenced in the NSW District Court to 10 years with a non-parole period of six years, but on appeal it was increased to 14 years with a non-parole period of 10 years.

Other: Beattie was a member of a private Facebook group for paedophiles who would share child abuse material to the page, which went unchecked by authorities. He directed the live sexual abuse of overseas children via an online video stream, paying people to rape children while he watched and directed online.